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Re: correct debian way to write version into changelog file



On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:05:06 -0300
"andremachado" <andremachado@techforce.com.br> wrote:

> Please, what is the correct debian way to read VERSION file (at source root
> dir) and write it to the debian/changelog file?
> At the moment, I hardcoded the version into the file, as it was created first
> by dh_make.

Support is limited to dch -v $versionstring. That can be automated with personal scripts or other tools but changelog entries need to be created with dch and edited by hand.

Note that some processing is going to be required to turn a source version into a Debian version anyway.

See man dch.

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